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Twitter Slaps SEOs With Nofollow On All Links

26th August 2009

A year ago, Twitter was known to only a handful of people who were all search and social media marketing enthusiasts. These search and social media professionals saw the potential in Twitter and promoted it on their blogs, in their emails and in a lot of their communications. Twitter has repaid the favour by treating all users as spammers and slapped rel=”nofollow” attributes onto all external links. More »

Top Information Sources For Bloggers

10th March 2009

Bloggers often link to the sources where they get their information. A study carried out by Technorati found that chief among the non-blog sources linked to by bloggers are the websites of mainstream media companies. More »

Google Stirs Up Yet Another Linking Debate

31st January 2008

It has been widely believed so far that links from a .edu domain are worth more in Google’s eyes than links from .com, .net and .org etc. domains. However, John Mueller, a Webmaster Trends Analyst from Google Europe indicated that this might not actually be the case. More »

SEO Tip: Links From Wikipedia Images

11th September 2007

Lise Broer (a.k.a. Durova), a Wikipedia administrator, has written an article on Search Engine Land about how optimisers can get viral links from Wikipedia by uploading relevant images for use as illustrations alongside an article. More »